Faculty and Staff
Steven
E. Barkan, Professor and Chair
5728 Fernald Hall, Room 201A
Orono, ME 04469-5728
(207)581-2383
barkan@maine.edu
Ph.D., State University of New York at Stony Brook,1980
Steve's areas of interest in
teaching and research are: criminology; deviant behavior; law and
society; collective behavior and social movements, and research methods.
His current research projects focus on: commitment and participation in
social movement organizations; public opinion about crime and
punishment; and household crowding and child well-being. He has also
written or co-authored several texts for sociology, criminology, and
criminal justice courses. He has served on the Board of Directors of the
Society for the Study of Social Problems, as the chair of the SSSP
Editorial and Publications Committee, and as chair of its Law and
Society Division. He also previously edited the newsletter of the
American Sociological Association Section on Collective Behavior and
Social Movements and served on its workshops and publication committees.
Publications
• Essentials of Criminal Justice.
Allyn & Bacon, 2004 (with George Bryjak)
•
Criminology: A Sociological Understanding.
Prentice Hall, 2nd ed., 2001
•
Collective Violence. Allyn & Bacon, 2001
(with Lynne Snowden)
•
Discovering Sociology: Using Microcase
Explorit. MicroCase Corporation, 2nd ed., 2003
•
Protestors on Trial: Criminal Justice in
the Southern Civil Rights and Vietnam Anti-War Movements. Rutgers
University Press, 1985.
Journal Articles
• "Household Crowding and Aggregate
Crime Rates." Journal of Crime and Justice, 23(2000):47-64
•
"Racial Prejudice and Support by Whites
for Police Use of Force." Justice Quarterly 15 (December 1998):743-753
(with Steven F. Cohn)
•
"Race, Issue Engagement, and Political
Participation: Evidence from the 1987 General Social Survey." Race &
Society 1 (Spring 1998):63-76
•
"Beyond Recruitment: Predictors of
Differential Participation in a National Anti-Hunger Organization."
Sociological Forum 10 (March 1995):113-134 (with Steven F. Cohn and
William H. Whitaker)
•
"Racial Prejudice and Support for the
Death Penalty by Whites." Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency
31 (May 1994):202-209 (with Steven F. Cohn)
•
"Commitment Across the Miles: Ideological
and Microstructural Sources of Support in a National Anti-Hunger
Organization." Social Problems 40 (November 1993):362-373 (with Steven
F. Cohn and William H. Whitaker)
•
"Activists Against Hunger: Membership
Characteristics of a National Social Movement Organization."
Sociological Forum 8 (March 1993):113-131 (with Steven F. Cohn and
William H. Whitaker)
•
"Predictors of Rank-and-File Feminist
Activism: Evidence from the 1983 General Social Survey." Social Problems
39 (November 1992):332-344 (with Pat D. Dauphinais)
•
"Punitive Attitudes Toward Criminals:
Racial Consensus or Racial Conflict?" Social Problems 38 (May
1991):287-296 (with Steven F. Cohn and William A. Halteman)
•
"Law, Power, and Political Trials."
Sociologie et Societes 18 (April 1986):153-161.
•
"Interorganizational Conflict in the
Southern Civil Rights Movement.: Sociological Inquiry 56 (Spring
1986):190-209
•
"Legal Control of the Southern Civil
Rights Movement." American Sociological Review 49 (August 1984):552-565
•
"Jury Nullification in Political Trials."
Social Problems 31(October 1983):28-45.
•
"Political Trials and Resource
Mobilization: Towards an Understanding of Social Movement Litigation."
Social Forces 58 (March 1980):944-961.
•
"Strategic, Tactical and Organizational
Dilemmas of the Protest Movement Against Nuclear Power." Social Problems
27 (October 1979):19-37.
•
"Political Trials and the Pro Se Defendant
in the Adversary System." Social Problems 24 (February 1977):324-336
Anthology Articles
• "Racial Prejudice and Support by
Whites for Punitive Sanctions Against Criminals." In Sandra Browning et
al. (eds.), For the Common Good, forthcoming (with Steven F. Cohn)
•
"The Social Science Significance of the
O.J. Simpson Case." In Greg Barak (ed.), Representing OJ: Murder,
Criminal Justice and Mass Culture. Harrow and Heston, 1996.
•
"Criminal Prosecutions in the Southern
Civil Rights and Vietnam Anit-War Movements: Repression and Dissent in
Political Trials." In Steven Spitzer (ed.), Research in Law and
Sociology, vol. 3. JA1 Press, 1980.
Encyclopedia Articles
• "The Drug Legalization Debate."
In Clifton D. Bryant (ed.), The Encyclopedia of Criminology and Deviant
Behavior. Philadelphia: Taylor and Francis, 2000.
•
"Clamshell Alliance." In Christopher
Kruegler et al.(eds.), An Encyclopedia of Non-Violent Action. Garland
Publishing Company, 1996.
Book
Reviews
• 9 reviews of criminology and
social movement books published in various journals.
